Mechanical Team Leader

The buildings that make up the landscape of our daily lives seem like permanent fixtures, fastened to a time and place. But what if that didn’t have to be true? What if our built environment — where we live, learn, play, and conduct business — carried us forward instead?

Your Opportunity

Your Key Responsibilities
- Foster communication within the team, hosting weekly workload/staff welfare/feedback discussions and manage team workload.
- Communicate information and decisions from leadership discussions and Business Centre (BC) leadership meetings with staff.
- Act as an advocate for the team both internally and externally. Listen and respond to team member concerns and communicate these to BC leadership when necessary. Work with BC leadership and the discipline leadership in finding and implementing solutions and ideas that will benefit the team.
- Foster and promote respect for others and for the company within the team.
- Actively mentor, review technical delivery and performance, and motivate staff to perform at their best.
- Perform peer reviews of engineering calculations, drawings and specifications within the mechanical team.
- Work in collaboration with other Team Leaders in developing tools and techniques for the execution of projects.
- Maintain and grow current business and client relationships.
- Prepare proposals, manage project budgets and scopes of work, schedules, and communications for both large and small multi-disciplinary projects.
- Coordinate design work with other disciplines, other offices, and other project team members.
- Remain up to date with current team and industry technical knowledge.
- Prepare and oversee engineering designs from conceptual design, through tender to construction.
- Work with team members in determining viable solutions for design issues.

Your Key Capabilities
- Awareness of project budgets, contracting strategies, scheduling tender document preparation and tender support and evaluation.
- Effective communication skills and ability to work independently, and as part of a multidiscipline group.
- Strong leadership, time management, project management, communication and team building skills are required.
- Demonstrated technical writing skills; capable of writing reports, proposals, letters, and technical specifications.
- Proven success in developing new business with existing clients and maintaining positive relationships.
- Ability to bring a wide variety of stakeholders together to meet tight deadlines.
- Strong verbal communication and soft skills.
- Familiarity with industry trends and industry leaders in the Ontario region.

Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering or equivalent.
- Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) registration in the province of Ontario. License to practice engineering in Quebec is considered an asset.
- Minimum of 10 years of consulting engineering experience in the buildings industry, working with municipal, provincial, federal, industrial, healthcare, commercial and educational clients.

This description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that may be required of the employee and other duties, responsibilities and activities may be assigned or may be changed at any time with or without notice.

About Stantec

Stantec is a global leader in sustainable engineering, architecture, and environmental consulting. The diverse perspectives of our partners and interested parties drive us to think beyond what’s previously been done on critical issues like climate change, digital transformation, and future-proofing our cities and infrastructure. We innovate at the intersection of community, creativity, and client relationships to advance communities everywhere, so that together we can redefine what’s possible.

**Primary Location**: Canada | ON | Ottawa

**Organization**: BC-1633 Buildings-CA Ottawa

**Employee Status**: Regular

**Travel**: No

**Schedule**: Full time

**Job Posting**: 03/09/2025 01:09:30

**Req ID**: 1002108